Kinsey Millhone mysteries
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 1
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[2008]
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English
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The wife of a hated divorce lawyer becomes the main suspect in his murder and hires private detective Kinsey Millhone to find the real killer.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 2
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"Beverly Danziger looked like an expensive, carefully wrapped package from a good but conservative shop. Only her compulsive chatter hinted at a nervousness out of all proportion to the problem she placed before Kinsey Millhone. There was an absent sister. A will to be settled -- a matter of a few thousand dollars. Mrs. Danziger didn't look as if she needed the money. And she didn't seem to be longing for a family reunion. Still, there were bills...
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"He was young - maybe twenty or so - and he must once have been a good-looking kid. But now his body was covered in scars, his face half-collapsed. For three weeks Kinsey Millhone had watched him doggedly working out at the local gym. Then one day Bobby Callahan approached her with his story: a murderous assault on a rural road, a 400-foot plunge into the canyon below, his Porsche a ruin, his best friend dead. Even with huge chunks of his memory wiped...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 4
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English
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Kinsey is hired to deliver $25,000 to a fifteen-year-old kid but discovers that the person who hired her is a phony who shows up dead when she tries to collect her fee.
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It was two days after Christmas when Kinsey Millhone received the bank slip showing a credit for five thousand dollars. The account number was correct but Kinsey hadn't made the deposit. Then came the phone call and suddenly everything became clear. The frame-up was working and Kinsey was trapped.
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'F' is for fugitive , Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 6
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'G' is for gumshoe , Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 7
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It started with the murder of Kinsey Millhone's sometime drinking buddy, an insurance claims adjuster. But before long Kinsey stumbles onto a massive insurance scam. Going undercover as a wisecracking vamp, Millhone descends into the Los Angeles nether world of machismo and gang hideouts. Her companion, terrified at having crossed the violent crook Raymond Maldonado, is Bibianna Diaz--no Girl Scout herself.
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1992.
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When Morley Shine, a fellow PI, dies from a heart attack, Kinsey Millhone takes over the seemingly simple task of gathering evidence for Lonnie Kingman, a local attorney immersed in a civil suit. Stakes are high. David Birney, acquitted of his wealthy wife's murder five years ago, got his hands on her fortune. Now Kingman wants to divest Birney of the money in favor of the wife's child by an earlier marriage. But the statute of limitations has about...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 16
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2001.
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English
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When a respected physician who operates a nursing home disappears, his ex-wife hires PI Kinsey Millhone to investigate.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 18
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[2004]
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English
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All Kinsey Millhone must do is keep Reba Lafferty out of trouble after she is released from prison for embezzlement. Her father, Nord Lafferty, is paying Kinsey a lot of money to see that Reba follows all the rules of her parole: no drugs, no booze, no gambling. It seems simple and easy enough, but nothing in life is simple or easy.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 21
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English
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After a recent reference to a kidnapping triggers a flood of memories, unemployed college dropout Michael Sutton hires Kinsey Millhone to locate a four-year-old girl's remains and find the men who killed her.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 22
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English
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California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes just about everyone, including Audrey's fianc, several loan sharks, a stone-cold killer, and a hapless burglar who knows more than is healthy for him.
23) W is for wasted
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 23
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" Of the #1 New York Times-bestselling Kinsey Millhone series, NPR said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters." Two dead bodies changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue. The first was a local PI of suspect reputation. He'd been gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach six weeks later....
24) X
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 24
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English
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Sue Grafton's X: Perhaps her darkest and most chilling novel, it features a remorseless serial killer who leaves no trace of his crimes. Once again breaking the rules and establishing new paths, Grafton wastes little time identifying this sociopath. The test is whether Kinsey can prove her case against him before she becomes his next victim.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 25
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"Of #1 New York Times-bestselling author Sue Grafton, NPR's Maureen Corrigan said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters." With only one letter left, Grafton's many devoted readers will share that sentiment. The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y is for Yesterday begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate--and film the attack....